Quote:We've made a change to our forum posting requirements - non-paid accounts may now read posts in any of the public forums but may post only into the newly created "New Users" forum.

A fair number of new users seem to start in the tech support forum, are they locked out of this area too? It might be unwise to deny support to a trial user, as solving an installation/use issue may determine if a sale happens...

Quote:We've made a change to our forum posting requirements - non-paid accounts may now read posts in any of the public forums but may post only into the newly created "New Users" forum.

A fair number of new users seem to start in the tech support forum, are they locked out of this area too? It might be unwise to deny support to a trial user, as solving an installation/use issue may determine if a sale happens...

My understanding is that any questions that unpaid users have can be put into the new section regardless of where they would normally go.

Quote:We've made a change to our forum posting requirements - non-paid accounts may now read posts in any of the public forums but may post only into the newly created "New Users" forum.

A fair number of new users seem to start in the tech support forum, are they locked out of this area too? It might be unwise to deny support to a trial user, as solving an installation/use issue may determine if a sale happens...

TBH, i've only seen people create new accounts a few times. Rules are great, but without enforcing them, they arent going to be of much use. No matter how many restrictions you put in place, the ones losing are not the ones that created the problem.

A good example is banning political discussion, can anyone honestly say it did any actual change to the atmosphere?

Quote:TBH, i've only seen people create new accounts a few times. Rules are great, but without enforcing them, they arent going to be of much use. No matter how many restrictions you put in place, the ones losing are not the ones that created the problem.

A good example is banning political discussion, can anyone honestly say it did any actual change to the atmosphere?

Quote:TBH, i've only seen people create new accounts a few times. Rules are great, but without enforcing them, they arent going to be of much use. No matter how many restrictions you put in place, the ones losing are not the ones that created the problem.

A good example is banning political discussion, can anyone honestly say it did any actual change to the atmosphere?

Yes....it removed one more area for argument.

And in my case, one of the major points of interest to visit the General discussion forum: the ability to exchange POVs with people from all over the world I regularly got in contact with regarding subjects of general interest and not focused on the software for DVD collecting...

On topic:

I'm curious to see if this new course of action will effectively remove the users that are continously creating a hostile atmospehere in these forums...